FAQ
What is Habitat?
Habitat turns surplus renewable energy into compute for AI and digital workloads. We connect physical energy infrastructure with on-chain liquidity so clean power becomes productive digital value.
How does the system work end to end?
Physical side: Surplus solar energy flows into modular data centers onsite, which run AI and GPU workloads. Digital side: The Habitat token coordinates incentives, where staking generates Energy Points that can be minted into Compute Credits, which are tokenized claims on renewable-powered compute.
What is the Habitat token used for?
The token is the coordination layer that links curtailed renewable power to compute capacity. Stakers earn Energy Points, then mint Compute Credits that can be redeemed for compute or traded in the Habitat Marketplace.
What are Energy Points and Compute Credits?
Energy Points are earned by staking the Habitat token and reflect share of network capacity. Compute Credits are minted from Energy Points and represent claimable renewable-powered compute that can be redeemed by users or sold to buyers who need AI or GPU cycles.
How does Habitat make money and why do participants win?
Habitat monetizes wasted solar by selling it as compute hours. Token buyers gain exposure as demand for compute and energy drives token utility. Energy providers earn from otherwise curtailed power, data centers profit by running AI on cheap green energy, and AI or DePIN partners unlock new revenue streams. We turn lost power into a market where everyone involved earns.
Why is this needed now?
Renewables are scaling faster than grid flexibility, which creates curtailment. AI demand for power and GPUs is surging at the same time. Habitat bridges energy abundance with digital demand so every watt has value.
How big is the opportunity?
Over 100 TWh of renewable energy is curtailed globally each year. A single 36 MW PV site can waste tens of megawatt-hours daily at peak sun. Converting even a fraction of this into compute creates a multi-billion market for renewable-powered AI.
What role do EPCs play?
We work with EPCs (Engineering Procurement and Construction firms) to embed Habitat at the infrastructure layer. EPCs have already built hundreds of parks, know curtailment numbers by region, and can integrate our model into existing parks. They can also pitch reduced break-even projections to their client networks and include Habitat-native design for future projects.
What is a Habitat-native solar park?
It is a park designed from day one to pair energy generation with compute onsite. Power goes to the grid first; surplus is absorbed instantly by colocated modular data centers. The goal is full utilization from day one and no wasted watts.
Can this retrofit existing parks or only new ones?
Both. EPC partners help integrate MDC capacity at existing sites facing curtailment. For new builds, Habitat-native design locks AI and compute demand into the business model from the start and prevents future waste.
What is a modular data center and why use it?
An MDC is a factory-built containerized data center with power and liquid cooling ready to accept racks. It deploys in weeks, scales in blocks, and supports high-density GPU loads. Examples include systems from Rittal, HPE, and Vertiv.
What does a typical GPU setup look like?
Reference profile: NVIDIA H100 SXM5 at about 700 W per GPU, eight GPUs per server, 5.6 kW per node, rack density 30 to 80 kW. MDCs commonly operate at 40 to 80 kW per rack with direct-to-chip liquid cooling and rear-door heat exchangers.
How does the interconnection and compliance work?
Sites tie into the PV collector bus at medium voltage with step down to MDC power distribution and UPS. Designs follow EU network codes and ENTSO-E rules. Anti-islanding, relay protection, and SCADA integration are standard.
What do the economics look like at site level?
Illustrative 100 MWp to 36 MW AC export site producing about 180,000 MWh per year at 60 euro per MWh earns about 10.8 million euro. A ten percent curtailment loses about 1.08 million euro. Redirecting that ten percent into compute at 0.20 to 0.30 euro per kWh can yield 3.6 to 5.4 million euro in additional revenue.
What about a concrete Bulgarian example?
Trakia MT Solar at 36 MW AC with PVsyst modeling near 66.9 GWh per year shows lunchtime curtailment above 20 MW in spring and summer. MDC clusters sized at about 1.4 MW each can absorb that profile with minimal storage. Full monetization of surplus occurs around 1,400 to 1,500 GPUs.
What is the break-even impact of adding GPUs?
Example sensitivity at about 3 dollars per hour per GPU and H100 class hardware:
PV only break-even: about 11 years
PV plus 200 GPUs: about 8.7 years
PV plus 500 GPUs: about 5.4 years
PV plus 1,000 GPUs: about 3.7 years
PV plus 1,420 GPUs: about 2.8 years
At around 1,440 GPUs, surplus is fully monetized and IRR uplift exceeds 60 percent versus PV only.
What is the unit economics per GPU?
Capex per H100 share roughly 35,000 dollars. Power draw about 0.7 kW or 6 MWh per year. Revenue at 3 dollars per hour about 26,300 dollars per year at full use. Solar LCOE power cost at 0.03 dollars per kWh about 180 dollars per year.
Gross margin remains very high before capex recovery, and at 50 percent utilization compute can still double site cash flow.
How are workloads scheduled compared to solar output?
Habitat aligns GPU demand with the park curtailment curve. Midday peaks run training or batch jobs. Evening or night can shift to inference or lower duty cycles, supplemented by short duration batteries or demand response if needed.
What makes this web3 native and not repurposed web2?
We design the economics, hardware, and governance together. Staking and on-chain incentives coordinate capacity, credits represent claimable compute, and pricing can respond to on-chain demand. The goal is a physical substrate that matches decentralized AI and validator needs rather than retrofitting web2 data centers.
What is the Habitat Marketplace?
It is an exchange where Compute Credits can be priced, traded, and redeemed. Buyers get renewable-powered GPU hours, energy producers and operators get liquidity, and stakers can convert Energy Points into usable credits.
How do partners participate and get paid?
EPCs integrate Habitat into parks and bring clients. Energy producers monetize surplus power. Data center suppliers deploy MDCs purpose-built for high-density GPUs. Aggregators earn through transparent revenue sharing tied to service fees. Token participants earn Energy Points and can mint Compute Credits.
How does this compare to traditional cloud?
Traditional cloud rents compute from grid power with rigid contracts and little sensitivity to local surplus. Habitat places compute at the energy source, monetizes curtailment, improves ROI for parks, and gives buyers green capacity with competitive pricing and programmable access.
What is the plan to scale?
Stage one: pilots at existing parks that already curtail. Stage two: expand MDC count per site and across sites with demand response links. Stage three: replicate in multiple regions with EPC partners and standard blueprints for rapid rollout.
What are the headline benefits for each stakeholder?
Energy producers reduce waste and unlock new revenue.
EPCs add a high ROI service to current and future clients.
Data center suppliers access a global market anchored in more than 100 TWh of annual curtailment.
Token holders gain access to compute and liquidity through Energy Points and Compute Credits.
AI and DePIN teams get renewable-powered capacity with flexible economics.
What is the long term vision?
A global network of Habitat-native solar parks and modular data centers that operate at full utilization from day one. A market where clean power becomes compute and where energy and digital markets move together through a shared tokenized layer.
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